Article March 22, 1993 Issue

William Tell and the empty hat

Recognizing that laws of matter have no real validity or authority brings healing to disease.

Laura D. Middleton

The only thing I knew about William Tell was that he shot an apple off his son's head with an arrow. I had wondered on occasion why he had done this but never ventured to research it further. I happened to learn of the circumstances that led up to this famous event one evening when I was waiting for the day's activities to end so that I could devote some time to quiet prayer.

My daughter is a first grader. About the time I was getting her ready for bed, I got a telephone call telling me that my daughter had visited the school nurse that day. She had a couple of bumps on her face, and the nurse had said that we should be alert to the possibility that it might be chickenpox.

Having seen many healings both for myself and for my daughter as a result of prayer in Christian Science, I was not afraid. I immediately knew that this would be overcome through a deeper understanding of the allness of God. I felt I would need to devote some time to actually realizing the Bible-based truth that God created only good, and to deny the mistaken conviction that a child of God can suffer from any supposed evil cause. The only genuine cause is our Father-Mother God.

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